Life

[louiselux]

I didn't enjoy Robert Harris's Pompeii. The premise is good: a volcano-based thriller! Sounds bloody brilliant. But the protagonist was hopelessly Mary Sue-ish and an enormous, smug prig.

But it was saved by the revelation that Romans dressed their favourite eels in jewellery. And the rain pf pumice at the end. Read it just for those things.

I can't think of anything else sensible to write about life. The world has gone mad. Nothing but Popes for bloody weeks on end and now look what they've gone and done; the Daily Mail telling us we're going to die one of three ways: beaten by thugs, eaten by MRSA or poisoned by terrorists;  Howard - shut the fuck up, I can't bear another word of your miserable stinking scaremongering;  Kennedy - well, convince me; Blair - he's going to win because the Sun came out on his side today and also, if the US election showed us anything it's that floating voters will go for the person who can most sound like they believe what they saying.

Fannish things

In other news, I wrote some drabbles where Hakkai, Gojyo, Sanzo and Goku are British teenagers,  here and here.  I make my own fun.

Comments

[karose.livejournal.com]

...Raining pumice?

Ow my brain. It's been a few years since Geology class, but-- I mean, you get firebombs with Hawaiian volcanoes, but-- Ow.

[lovelyzelda.livejournal.com]

I found Pompeii really disappointing. I'd been interested in it for years(and got to see the site last year), but the book was just...dull. Wait, that's the one that has the guy working on the aqueducts and there's some chick involved and a guy thrown to the eels, right?

I really hope we're thinking about the same book, because I'd hate to think there's two not very good books about a volcano out there.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

It's that book, all right. It was dull, and here was me thinking you couldn't mess up a book about a massive volcano explosion, killer eels and vomitariums. I was wrong!

[lovelyzelda.livejournal.com]

It was one of those experiences where I found myself asking, "Dammit, when is the volcano going to erupt and kill all these stupid, boring people?"

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I wanted the engineer to suffer a horrible fiery death but he never did. Bah.